First Watch — Restaurant in Tampa

Honestly the only thing worth getting here are the sandwiches. I have tried every eggs Benedict and all I can say it is an insult to the Eggs Benedict Community along with every item on their menu. That being said, after many failed attempts at getting something good at First Watch I decided to give the Roast Beef and Harvarti a try and was definitely shocked at the flavor. The roast beef with the roasted onions, tomatoes, and arugula all on a grilled Parmesan-crusted sourdough was a mouthwatering combination along with a bowl of tomato soup which was less than half full and needed salt but overall honestly is the only thing that makes me want to come back to First Watch. Another thing that is unfortunate though would be the service. My last two visits at this establishment I have been sat between two parties. And both times my server completely ignores my party yet continues to only attend both parties that are literally not even an foot away from me. The waiters just seem to literally purposely ignore my party and I until we have to end up basically begging them for the attention that one is expected to be provided with. I understand there are many tables and you forget to attend us once, but what I do not understand is how a waiter can wait on both parties and exclude one the ENTIRE time. Like seriously I was ignored to the point where the waitress did not even want to leave her name on the receipt because she knew we did not look happy with the service she provided. Well was supposed to provide because there was not much service provided. Overall First Watch is a very troublesome restaurant that needs to work on their costumer service and every other item on their menu that is not a sandwich which is the only thing that is...

My husband and I went there for breakfast. We sat and waited for a waitress to take our order for over 20 minutes. I asked “Are you sure they know we are here?” We were one of three occupied tables in the restaurant so they were not busy. The waitress finally arrived, no hello, nothing. My husband ordered the Eggs Benedict Classic and I ordered the Healthy Turkey Omelet and we ordered a side of two pancakes. We waited over 35 minutes for this food. When it arrived, there was only one pancake. We explained that we ordered two pancakes. The server told us that there was a pancake already made so she took our single pancake to add it to the plate. When she came back with the pancakes, it still looked like only one pancake. We looked under the large pancake and found a very small, burnt, rock hard pancake under the large pancake. Since nobody came to check on us, my husband had to go searching for our server to let her know it was burnt, rock hard and not edible. She said she would replace both pancakes with two fresh pancakes. The Healthy Turkey Omelet was supposed to have feta cheese, spinach, onion and tomato. The one I ordered had no tomato, one small inch square of Turkey lunch meat inside, two small cubes of feta cheese, one small spinach leaf and two small brown onion skins. Yuck! We waited another 40 minutes and no pancakes. My husband had to go to find our waitress AGAIN and she said she did not know when the pancakes would be ready. We asked for the check and after we paid, we told her we would not be back again and all she said was “ok, bye.” Don’t waste your time or money going to this hot mess of a restaurant. If I could, I’d...

UPDATE: 3/23/22- I received a very nice phone call from a company rep who had the same reaction to my photo. She planned to reach out to the location staff. I was given a gift card to give my local FW a try. This was the best possible outcome and I applaud their attentive efforts.

This was one of the WORST breakfasts I ever had in my 60+ years of dining out.

I was very excited to experience what I thought was a better than average experience in breakfast food quality.

First, the Tangerine Dream juice drink was tasty. If I could stop there, they’d get 5 stars. I ordered the trifecta with scrambled and pork sausage. It was barely warm - barely! The cook messed up my eggs and thought he could mush up the fried eggs into scrambled eggs-WRONG! The waffle tasted like a mix with zero taste or texture. The sausage tasted good with a nice char.

The wait was what you would expect on a Saturday morning in a tourist area, so that was expected.

The place was clean and pleasing to the eye. The staff were not rude but by no means friendly or even faked like they cared if you were there.

Honestly, I would rather eat somewhere less pretentious and get a better tasting breakfast or at least know what scrambled eggs are and how to make them. I highly suggest you...